GETTING INTO THE 2:00 HOUR, THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF TIME THE STATE HAD AND WHAT SHE’S DOING HERE,
SHE IS LAYING OUT HISTORY AND
HOPING THAT AS A LISTEN, THEY
WAY THAT INTO THEIR
CONSIDERATIONS, LET’S LISTEN
IN.
>> THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE HE
CAN CONTROL HIS BEHAVIOR.
AND BECAUSE HE CAN CONTROL HIS
BEHAVIOR, HE ONLY HAS A
PERSONALITY DISORDER.
THEY GIVE YOU CONSISTENTLY, FOR
OR MAYBE FIVE EXAMPLES, --
>> Reporter: NOW WITH THE LEAD
PROSECUTOR TOLD JURORS THIS
MORNING.
>> WHAT HE WAS DOING, HE WAS
FUN HIS VICTIMS.
>> Reporter: THE LEAD
PROSECUTOR.
>> Eden: SYSTEMATIC MASSACRE.
>> Reporter: REMINDING JURORS
OF HIS PLANNING FOR MASS
MURDER.
>> MY NAME IS NICK AND I’LL BE
THE NEXT SCHOOL SHOOTER OF
2019.
>> THAT WAS HIS PLAN, HE CUT IT
OUT.
>> Reporter: THE BRUTAL WAY
THAT MEDICAL EXAMINER’S
TESTIFIED ABOUT HOW THEY DIED
TO INCLUDE JAIME GUTTENBERG.
>> Eden: AS SHE RUNS HE SHOOTER
THE BACK SEVERING THE SPINAL
CORD.
>> Reporter: THE FATHER SHAKING
HIS HEAD HIS ANGUISH AS HE IS
REMINDED OF HER DEFENSIVE AND
CONTACT WOUNDS.
>> Eden: THE END OF THAT 5.56
AR-15 STYLE RIFLE, WAS RIGHT UP
AGAINST HER CHEST.
>> THE ACTIONS WERE COLD
CAFFEINATED AND PREMEDITATED.
HEINOUS, ATROCIOUS AND CRUEL.
>> ON RELENTLESSLY CRUEL.
THE APPROPRIATE SENTENCE FOR
NIKOLAUS CRUZ IS THE DEATH
PENALTY.
>> DO WE KILL BRAIN DAMAGE,
MENTALLY ILL BROKEN PEOPLE?
DO WE?
I HOPE NOT.
>> Reporter: THE LEAD DEFENSE
ATTORNEY.
>> THIS PHASE OF THE TRIAL OF
THE PROCEEDINGS, IS NOT ABOUT
ACCOUNTABILITY.
>> Reporter: TOLD JURORS OUR
CLIENT TOOK RESPONSIBLY FOR HIS
ACTIONS BY PLEADING GUILTY TO
THE 17 MURDER COUNTS WHEN YOU
GO THIS MONTH.
>> THE DECISION HAS TO BE MADE
BY EACH OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY, IS
HOW HE SHOULD BE PUNISHED.
>> Reporter: AND THEN ASKING
THEM TO LOOK AT WHAT SHAPE THE
PARKLAND SHOOTER.
>> SHE POISONED HIM IN THE
WOMB.
>> Reporter: A ADDICTED
BIRTHMOTHER.
>> Reporter: -- HE BOUGHT HIS
FIRST GUN, RIFLE.
DAYS, LITERALLY DAYS AFTER
BEING DESIGNATED A VULNERABLY
MENTALLY ILL ADULTS.
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN
AND FAMILY.
>> Reporter: DEFENSE ARGUED IT
WAS INEPT AT MANAGING THE
CLIENT LIFETIME STRUGGLES WITH
LEARNING DELAYS, ANXIETY,
AGGRESSION, FETAL ALCOHOL
SPECTRUM DISORDER.
>> YOU ARE ABOUT TO MAKE ONE
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISIONS
THAT YOU MAY EVER MAKE IN YOUR
ENTIRE LIFE.
AND YOU WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH
YOUR LIFE.
SENSING NIKOLAUS CRUZ TO LIFE
IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
>> Reporter: SHE ALSO SAID THAT
VENGEANCE IS NOT JUSTICE.
I WILL LISTEN TO WHAT SHE IS